星期一 2005年03月21日
What's difference between IIIMF and SCIM Someones discusse such article on Linuxsir website, see:
http://www.linuxsir.org/bbs/showthread.php?t=180826 (IIIMF 相对 SCIM 有何优势，FC 要选择它？)
I thinks the differences as follow:
1. different design philosophy (设计哲学)
SCIM: KISS (Keep It Simple and Stupid) and 20-80 (use 20% resource to finish 80% features).
IIIMF: 100% meet the input method developer's requirement.
2. different priority on FrontEnd and Backend:
SCIM: High priority on GUI and user experience.
IIIMF: High priority on input method control and backend services.
From the view of MVC (Module/View/Control) model, IIIMF more focus on Control side, while SCIM more focus on View side.
3. different professional level for the design of API (Application Programming Interface)/SPI (Service Provider Interface)
IIIMF provide professional IIIMCF (IIIM client framework) APIs so that all kinds of applications can call IIIMCF APIs to get input methods services from IIIM server. that's one possible that we can replace XIM with IIIMF in the low_level implementation in X11 and applications (such as StarOffice).
SCIM have no such kind of designs.
4. different market target.
IIIMF focus on market with enterprise system environment, for example, thin client system.
And end users more like SCIM.
from the development view of input method architecture, I think, in the long run, IIIMF have more possibility to survive and become one industry standard because it is more scalable that it can accommodate itself to input system with different complexity, from most simple to most complex.
if IIIMF developers put more resources on the GUI enhancement, then IIIMF will everywhere. X11, GTK, Qt, Windows ...
I think, That's why FC choose IIIMF.
( 2005年03月21日, 11:31:59 下午 CST )
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